Saturday Misc.
Extreme or parody or maybe both. Either way, I'm getting a kick out of it and I
haven't even visited it yet: "The world's first vegetarian, Cain, was also the
world's first murderer. Coincidence? Not according to the folks at the
Topic
Miscellaneous
A collection of 3800 issues
The Wednesday Eudemon
One of the best article bullet summaries I've ever seen: Paul Theroux depicted
V.S. Naipaul ten years ago as a stingy, tantrum-prone, racist snob badly in
need
of driving lessons. He was far too kind. [http://www.aldaily.com/] And the
bullet is apparently accurate. The Nobel
Thursday Miscellany
Relaxing time. I'm experiencing my first breather at the office in over three
months. I plan on meeting my wife and another couple for dinner after work,
drink a few big mugs, get up tomorrow morning and knock out a piece with a
looming deadline, go to Mass,
The Wednesday Eudemon
18 things a man doesn't have
[http://www.menshealth.com/cda/article.do?site=MensHealth&channel=guy.wisdom&category=life.lessons&conitem=2c3f60783e998110VgnVCM20000012281eac____]
. It's a pretty good list, but I don't agree with all of them (what's wrong a
Easter Monday (Moanin')
Long weekend, short blog post. For some reason, I was dragging all Saturday and
Sunday. I slept in this morning, leaving me with little time for blogging.
Easter went well. It was also Tess' (3) birthday. A three-year-old in the house,
and Marie is not pregnant. Is the parade
The Wednesday Eudemon
Blogging will be light the next couple of days. I'll be struggling with a time
trifecta: jammed at the office, Holy Week, and NCAA basketball tournament. I
hold my 16th annual basketball team auction tonight, which usually keeps me up
about two hours past my bedtime, then I
Monday Moanin'
Netherlands to allow public sex in its Central Park? Alderman Paul van Grieken
has plans to allow public sex as part of this summer's new rules of conduct for
the country's best-known park, Vondelpark.
[http://snafu-ed.blogspot.com/2008/03/amesterdam-to-legalize-sex-in-public.html]
Alright, it's
Saturday Stuff
The National Catholic Register has started a Pope watch blog: Pope2008.com
[http://www.pope2008.com/]. It'll cover the Pope's trip to the United States.
The cyber-place to be this papal visit.
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A few jokes I received yesterday:
1. A man with a gun went into
Monday Moanin'
My parents took my five (yes, five) youngest, ages 2 to 11, to the Detroit area
for my niece's birthday party yesterday. The arrangement left Marie and I with
our two oldest, 14 and 13. We celebrated "Big person Sunday" by exercising,
cleaning the house, then
Monday Moanin'
The parochial school fundraiser went splendidly. We aimed to make
$35,000-$40,000. We cleared $45,000. Expenses are still trickling in, but we're
comfortable notifying the ecclesiastical authorities that we beat the goal by
15% or so. The evening was a lot of fun, hands-down the